Primary care providers' preferences for pay-for-performance programs: a discrete choice experiment study in Shandong China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes are commonly used to incentivize primary healthcare (PHC) providers to improve the quality of care they deliver. However, the effectiveness of P4P schemes can vary depending on their design. In this study, we aimed to investigate the preferences of PHC providers for participating in P4P programs in a city in Shandong province, China.

Method

We conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) with 882 PHC providers, using six attributes: type of incentive, whom to incentivize, frequency of incentive, size of incentive, the domain of performance measurement, and release of performance results. Mixed logit models and latent class models were used for the statistical analyses.

Results

Our results showed that PHC providers had a str

SUBMITTER: Zhang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10936064 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature